permaculture

[Heide Hermary <heidehermary@pacificcoast.net>]

Black locust is poisonous to animals.  Why would you want to use it as 
forage?
Cheers, Heide

BK wrote:

> Hi,
> In reguards to black locusts, I'm not an avid silviculturalist, but I
> believe they are one of the faster growing trees around. Had a small tree
> (2" truck, 7 feet) about 2 years ago next to our house, it can now be seen
> popping up above our roof. Also have tons of little seedlings popping up.
> Its an n-fixer I believe. I've be playing with the idea of planting (on
> barren land) a dense crop of them. Plan being: dense amount of small trees
> to use as much sun as possible, thin about half of the trees out the next
> year, use as forage. Thin them next year forage/stickwood. Such that you'd
> continue to get a good amount out of the plot. Out course thats a bit of a
> monocultural idea, so it'd be good to find understory crops for the more
> mature system. Once they start flowering I bet you could get a good deal of
> honey from the stand. I've set up a smal row of the little seedlings, I'm
> hoping to try intertwining them as years progress to see how they'd work for
> some form of biotecture.
>
> Also, in reguards to industry and stacking, theres a term around called
> "industrial ecologies". Setting up a group of industries where one
> industries waste is anothers input.
>
> Lastly, I'm not so sure I'd want to drink rainwater collected from rooves in
> urban areas. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a bit of airborne
> pollution around urban centers that would fall as rain?
>
> Cheers,
> BK 
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